Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons spent some of her time during the band's hiatus in the early part of this decade to collaborate with former Talk Talk bassist Paul Webb. In 2002 the pair released Out of Season (Webb uses the pseudonym Rustin Mann) which spotlights Gibbons' haunting voice supported by moody and jazzy instrumentation. While the tracks Tom The Model and Funny Time Of Year parallel Portishead songs, Romance and Mysteries are examples of how Gibbons and Webb managed to showcase their talent without falling back on their respective trip-hop or synth-pop genres that would have been a safe, and more than likely boring, approach to the collaboration.
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